alouda‧loud /əˈlaʊd/ ●●● S3 W2 adverb 
Joanne, would you read the poem aloud?laugh/groan/cry etc aloud The pain made him cry aloud. She could have laughed aloud.think aloud (=say the things you are thinking) ‘What did you say?’ ‘ Sorry, I was just thinking aloud.’ ► Do not use aloud to mean ‘in a loud voice’. Use loudly: You need to speak quite loudly for the people at the back.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- He cried aloud in pain.
- The teacher read aloud to the class.
- He had to stop himself from shouting aloud with pleasure.
- He read the few lines through, then closed his eyes for a moment before reading aloud.
- He seems at first laconic and enervated, loathe to put a sentence together aloud.
- Justin sat in a chair at the front of the class and read aloud from Bears on Hemlock Mountain.
- Maryellen reads aloud the sign on the wall.
- She changed her mind about reading aloud to Irene, who was looking at her, she felt, skeptically.
- Some reading requires quiet and calm; some reading cries out to be shared, perhaps to be read aloud.
Longman Language Activatorto read something
· Read the instructions carefully before you start.· Have you read Jean Martin's latest novel?· Don't believe everything you read in the newspapers.· She learnt to read when she was only three years old.read about · Did you read about that terrible car crash?read that · I was astonished to read that half of all sixteen year olds have experimented with drugs.read to somebody/read somebody something (=read something aloud, so that people can listen) · Our mother used to read to us every evening.· Read me Aunt Evelyn's letter while I cook dinner.
to read something and say the words so that people can hear it: read out something: · He opened the envelope and read out the name of the winner.read something out: · Read the numbers out and I'll write them down.read something out to somebody: · Sarah read the letter out to me.
to read something and say the words so everyone can hear it: read aloud/read out loud to: · After he went blind, she would read out loud to him from his favorite books.read aloud/read out loud from: · Sam read aloud from the note pinned to his door.read something aloud: · He picked up the letter and began to read it aloud.· The poem is intended to be read aloud.
to talk to yourself · I think he's going crazy - he talks to himself all the time.· Betty was talking to herself under her breath as she worked.
to say aloud what you are thinking, without meaning to talk to anyone else: · "I don't follow you." "That's OK. I'm just thinking out loud."· She began to think aloud as she always did when she was faced with a difficult problem.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Joanne, would you read the poem aloud? The pain made him cry aloud. She could have laughed aloud. He glanced at the letter and began to read it aloud.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB
Joanne, would you read the poem aloud? The pain made him cry aloud. She could have laughed aloud. (=say the things you are thinking) ‘What did you say?’ ‘ Sorry, I was just thinking aloud.’
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES ‘What did you say?’ ‘ Sorry, I was just thinking aloud.’ (=laugh so that other people can hear you)· Some parts of the book were so funny that they made me laugh out loud.
He glanced at the letter and began to read it aloud.· This was very painful, and made me cry aloud.· We were near the top when a man on the left cried aloud.· The situation cries aloud for strong, even dramatic, and also attention-winning, arguments.· She cried aloud in joyous elation, her body still on fire, holding on to the magical moment as long as she could.· She heard herself cry aloud, as if she had left her body, expelled by the spasm which shook it.· He caught Sally-Anne's wrist in his hand with such strength that she cried aloud.
· She groaned aloud in pleasure when his kisses continued down to the swell of her bosom.· At that, his mother dropped to her knees while his father wept and groaned aloud.· As the high points of last night's blustering and boasting passed through her mind one by one, she groaned aloud.· Her loins seemed to tear in protest, and she groaned aloud.· And Madra there, also, he suddenly remembered, and groaned aloud as he thought of the complications ahead.
· Quddus left the room, laughing aloud.· Uncrossing her ankles, she managed not to laugh aloud.· She wanted to laugh aloud at the prospect of the delight she would give.· However his ringing peroration struck most of those present as being ridiculous, and many laughed aloud.· So, when he treated me like this, I laughed aloud.· He looked, stared, then laughed aloud and moved.· Jurnet laughed aloud, the sound rumbling comfortably round the little church.
· Rex flicked back to the appropriate page and read aloud.· Primo reads aloud the words written underneath.· Some reading requires quiet and calm; some reading cries out to be shared, perhaps to be read aloud.· A few who do not dare to read aloud will ask the ones who do to read their stories too.· The opinions are printed and handed down to the parties rather than being read aloud.· Patten read aloud their past comments lauding the now-endangered Bill of Rights.· In addition, the model provides no account of how pronounceable non-words are read aloud, nor of how context influences word identification.· Or reading aloud can be a special treat on Friday nights, or holidays, or rainy Saturdays.
· Jess says aloud as the ball leaves her hand.· Mother he said aloud, feeling an odd comfort in the word, the old familiarity of it.· I said aloud, and then, horrified, I broke off.
· He had to stop himself from shouting aloud with pleasure.· And while you may not swear or shout aloud, your writing slows, words dropping stiff and stilted.· If he shouted aloud then - as in the high alpine passes - the rocks would crash down on him.
· They empathized with each other, responding to that which at no time had been spoken aloud, but understood between them.· It was Arab feminists who insisted on speaking aloud the oldest truths, bringing upon themselves the most ferocious repressions.· He knew that readers turn pages and speak aloud what is on the pages.
· What we have lived for is the dark when we think aloud to ourselves.· He did not attempt to formulate his ideas in finished form; he thought aloud so one could hear the brain tick.· This often took place in the pub and involved thinking aloud.· At one juncture he found himself thinking aloud.· Am I not to think aloud in your presence?· She began to think aloud as she always did when I was with her.· Through this method you stimulate the person to look at things afresh and to think aloud.
· He remembered the menacing phone-calls to Nicola and wondered aloud whether some one from a drugs syndicate had been trying to scare her.· It was a verbal disaster for Stockdale, who wondered aloud what he was doing there.· How does one write a travel book, I'd wondered aloud, how describe the sheer physicality of life?· I nodded in agreement, and I wondered aloud whether she did the same things with feelings.· It also shows in their embarrassed defensiveness when foreigners wonder aloud whether their public life is in need of change.· Some commentators have wondered aloud why this should have been so.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
- Am I not to think aloud in your presence?
- At one juncture he found himself thinking aloud.
- He did not attempt to formulate his ideas in finished form; he thought aloud so one could hear the brain tick.
- She began to think aloud as she always did when I was with her.
- This often took place in the pub and involved thinking aloud.
- Through this method you stimulate the person to look at things afresh and to think aloud.
- What we have lived for is the dark when we think aloud to ourselves.
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if you read, laugh, say something etc aloud, you read etc so that people can hear you SYN out loudread/say something aloud Joanne, would you read the poem aloud?laugh/groan/cry etc aloud The pain made him cry aloud. She could have laughed aloud.think aloud (=say the things you are thinking) ‘What did you say?’ ‘ Sorry, I was just thinking aloud.’ ► Do not use aloud to mean ‘in a loud voice’. Use loudly: You need to speak quite loudly for the people at the back.